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Wording and pronunciation of '*' Thread poster: Mats Wiman
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Mats Wiman 
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AFAIK, in American answering machines it's 'star key'.
In Swedish it's 'stjärna' [shairnah]= star (no 'key).
What is it in your language?
Mats
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| In English it is an asterisk | Feb 10, 2010 |
... or else an asterix as in Asterix the Gaul, but it is officially an asterisk.
According to the Concise Oxford its origin is:
Middle English: via late Latin from Greek asteriskos 'small star', diminutive of aster.
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In Spain it is also asterisk (asterisco)
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Samuel Murray
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Mats Wiman wrote:
AFAIK, in American answering machines it's 'star key'.
Afrikaans: sterretjie (more common), asterisk (more formal)
ZA English: asterisk
The term "star key" is seldom used in ZA English, and I would not be surprised if after asking for a person to press it, he'd get the response "there is no start key here".
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Maria Castro
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| star key in UK | Feb 10, 2010 |
In a textual context this symbol is of course called an asterisk, but in my experience when it appears on a telephone handset it is usually called the star key (e.g. in those telephone banking systems that tell you to enter some particular information and then "press the star key") - I haven't ever heard "asterisk key" in the UK, although Wikipedia seems to think it is used:-
The "*" is called the "star key" or "asterisk key".
... See more In a textual context this symbol is of course called an asterisk, but in my experience when it appears on a telephone handset it is usually called the star key (e.g. in those telephone banking systems that tell you to enter some particular information and then "press the star key") - I haven't ever heard "asterisk key" in the UK, although Wikipedia seems to think it is used:-
The "*" is called the "star key" or "asterisk key".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad ▲ Collapse
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| Sterretje in Dutch | Feb 10, 2010 |
In Dutch, it is a 'sterretje', much like the 'sterretjie' in Afrikaans but without the 'i'.
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Nikita Kobrin
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звёздочка, символ / знак *
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Hildegard Klein-Bodenheimer (X)
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Penelope Ausejo wrote:
In Spain it is also asterisk (asterisco)
In Peru it's also called "asterisco" (asterisk)
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dkalinic
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Simone Linke
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| Deutsch (telephone) | Oct 1, 2010 |
If we're talking about phones and answering machines here, it's "Sterntaste" in German (as opposed to the other one - # -, which is the "Rautetaste").
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| Star on a phone | Oct 1, 2010 |
In the US, we also say "press star" (*) or "press pound" (#).
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